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Morgoth's Quickie Quick Questions! - Contest Day 7
1) Is Pyramid Head legit and deserves to come back? Or are his fans ridiculously dedicated?

In 2005 PH scored 16.12% of the vote against Bowser. If you'd told me last week he was going to manage 16.18% in THIS poll, I'd have called you crazy, and in fact I still maintain that his managing that feat is the strangest result of the year so far. Not only is the Silent Hill series another two years past its prime, not only is Auron alone of comparable strength to Bowser, not only was a decentish mid-carder in Shadow there to suck some votes, but PH ALSO had to compete against about the closest thing the survival horror genre has to an icon. And not only that, we need to take into account that even if ALL of the people who supported PH back in '05 had voted him again in yesterday's match, that would only have amounted to 8.46% of the overall total, due to the explosion in votals we're experiencing this year.

So what the heck happened? His match pic was an improvement and certainly could have made him more recognizable, and I guess his appearance in the SH movie could have helped him some, even though only like two dozen people saw it. In summary... yes, we need to see him again someday, if only to shed a little more light on this mystery.

2) First Knuckles, now Shadow, still like how far Sonic goes in your bracket? Because I sure don't!

The rise in vote totals and continuing popularity of the Wii and DS had me thinking this season was going to favor the more casual-friendly, "cool looking" characters that would appeal to perhaps a bit of a younger audience, a description that Team Sonic would fit to a T, you'd think. Both Knux and Shadow had the best and most eye-catching pictures of their groups, I thought, and so yeah, it's weird that both have disappointed.

But that being said, no, I'm still ok with Sonic to the Final Four, just because who's going to stop him? Ganon? I think Midna has proven that (even on 'ZeldaFAQs') just being Zelda doesn't equal an auto-win in this format, so nay. Master Chief? H3 or no, he'd find a way to choke. Leon/Dante, not to that near-Elite level yet, Yuna same thing. But you know, maybe Squall could be the one to pull it off... Aw, but Snake will be on the other end, and we all saw that he can make Squall look borderline silly. Shoot. Yeah, still not seeing any way Sonic falls early.

3) One week in, the Oracle scoring system, yay or nay?

The system is good, but after seeing all these high scores I really feel we should stop dividing by 4 against the total incorrect, and instead just do 2 or so. I know it doesn't really change anything, but I mean, even the people down in 150th range are averaging nearly 43 points a match, and that just looks weird.

4) Still think you guys have a shot at winning a free game at some point? =P

"These guys" don't have a chance in heck at pulling off that particular stunning feat. ...I, however, will still be making it happen, and soon. Watch for it!

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